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To: robertpaulsen
Yeah, doing a study using Marinol (the THC pill) and a placebo wouldn't be fair, now would it?

It wouldn't be as interesting, to be sure. It's been done.

Oh, Dr. Donald Abrams has long been associated with the movement to legalize drugs.

Assumes facts not in evidence, unless you're implying that the following is an association in the movement to legalized drugs.

"Dr. Kenneth P. Mackie, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, has devoted 15 years to studying the brain's response to cannabinoids through specialized brain receptors called CB1 and CB2. "There's a whole bunch of theoretical reasons suggesting there would be a benefit for marijuana on a variety of conditions relating to pain and neuroinflammation," Dr. Mackie said. "But the clinical studies just aren't there."

A quick Google search only brings up an anti-drug shill site that claims that he's a legalization advocate.

28 posted on 02/16/2007 4:47:12 PM PST by cryptical (Wretched excess is just barely enough.)
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To: cryptical
"A quick Google search only brings up an anti-drug shill site that claims that he's a legalization advocate."

There you go. And your proof that he's not can be found ... where?

"The earth has shifted," announced MAPS President and NORML board member Rick Doblin, whose organization donated $5,000 for the preparation of Abrams' application. "Celebration is in order."

39 posted on 02/16/2007 5:17:22 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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